Fabulous Food Museum Exhibits

Dinosaur bones? Saw them. Old paintings? Old news. These days food museums are exhibiting some of the coolest things you need to see.Want to visit more fun food places? Try dining at one of these restaurants with clever names.

The Dr. Pepper Museum

The Dr. Pepper Museum

Don't let the name fool you. The Dr. Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute isn't owned by Dr. Pepper or its parent company, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. The soft-drink memorabilia home is actually a private, non-profit organization. Founded in 1998, the museum now resides in the historic 1906 Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company building in downtown Waco, where Dr. Pepper, the oldest soft-drink brand in the U.S., was once bottled. But this museum — which uses the story of the soft-drink industry to teach visitors about America's free enterprise economic system — welcomes soft-drink items from all brands, including Coca-Cola and Kickapoo Joy Juice. The museum's collection now has more than 100,000 artifacts.

National Mustard Museum

National Mustard Museum

In October 1986, Barry Levenson answered a calling. He began acquiring mustard, hoping to amass the world's largest collection of prepared mustards. What began as a few jars purchased one night in 1986 has grown into a museum that houses 5,350 mustards and more than 1,000 antique tins, pots, and other memorabilia that played a role in the history of mustard. Perhaps the shrine to mustard is missing just one thing: a hot dog museum next door.